ATTACK ON AGHI BABA.
"SMALL GIBRALTAR."
TURKISH TACTICS.
ALLIED REINFORCEMENTS.
(Received June 23. 2 a.m.)
Alexandria, June 22.
Further wounded soldiers who have arrived from Cape Helles and Gaba Tepe describe Achi Baba as a small Gibraltar. They declare if the British soldiers held the position it would never be taken. The Turks during the attack on May 18 were warned that if they wavered or attempted to retire they would be annihilated by their own machine guns. The first line of Turks flung themselves to the ground a hundred yards from the Australian and New (Zealand trenches and maintained a hot rifle-fire. The second line came on at the double and passed through them. The first line then rose and followed, the whole coming on in close formation with bayonets fixed. Our guns met them at point-blank range with terrible effect. British reinforcements are continually arriving at Gallipoli, and important headway is now expected.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15951, 23 June 1915, Page 8
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